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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Stumbling isn't falling.
Stumbling is not falling.
Stumbling is the fruit of haste.
Any opponent can be a stumbling block.
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.
Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.
In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.
The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?
As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.
'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
I will go out and have some fun. You can't lock yourself away forever. But it's not me you'll see stumbling out of nightclubs.
I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do it, so I hit the ground stumbling.
My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.
The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.
I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.
I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written.
If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.
Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley's drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about in my life at that time generally, as a single mother.
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.
